Elder brother's garrison

It didn't take long.

A small mountain of snacks had been piled up in front of the Roman table.

"...Hmm...this isn't right..." Xiaobai stroked her chin, looking at Roma with suspicion. Watching Roma eat, she suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and then, as if remembering something, she asked Roma thoughtfully, "Roma...after you were born, have you eaten any foods that you didn't really like?"

"Huh? No way." Roma, with a lollipop in her mouth, replied straightforwardly to Xiaobai. She even raised an eyebrow and gave Xiaobai a happy smile. "Hmm... I feel... everything I've ever eaten is delicious..."

"……"noob.

really.

Xiao Bai understood.

This Rome... could very well be like Bismarck...

Although Bismarck could taste all the flavors like sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, and salty on her tongue and taste buds, her mind was too rigid, making it impossible for her to understand what constituted delicious or tasty food...

The only difference between Rome and Bismarck might be that Bismarck struggled to understand what constituted a delicious flavor, while Rome struggled to understand what constituted an unpalatable flavor...

Ok……

It's quite sad.

Surprisingly, I didn't feel any regret about Rome's culinary obsession at all. I was even a little happy for her...

"Rome."

"Huh? What's wrong, Admiral?"

“…You…are really lucky…” Xiaobai sighed deeply at Rome.

Chapter 1788 Overnight Stay

About ten minutes later.

After washing the dishes and cooking utensils, Veneto returned to the living room and saw Little White sitting at the dining table with his hands supporting his chin, while Roma happily ate in front of a small mountain of snacks.

"Rome? Where did you get so many snacks?" Veneto asked in surprise.

"Reporting to the boss! It was given by the admiral!" Roma raised his hands high.

"Admiral?" Veneto looked at Xiaobai.

"Hmm. Consider it a small gift for Rome." Xiaobai nodded to Veneto and smiled shyly. "I bought these snacks when I was shopping in Kyoto. I ordered them on a whim, so there are a lot. I can't finish them all by myself, so I'll share some with Rome."

“…Alright. Thank you, Admiral.” Veneto nodded, but still said to Roma, “However, Roma, don’t eat snacks before or after meals, it will affect your rest. Eat less, and put away the snacks the Admiral gave you.”

"Okay! Yes, ma'am!" Roma quickly grabbed the snacks from the table and ran out of the living room. "I'll take them back to my room first, boss!"

"Go back quickly."

Veneto, with one hand on his hip, urged Rome's retreating figure.

The footsteps in Rome faded into the distance, and after going upstairs, they disappeared completely.

“I always feel that… Veneto is more like Rome’s mother than her sister,” Little White said to Veneto with a smile.

"Admiral... please don't make fun of me..." Veneto's face suddenly turned red after Xiaobai's words, and the elder's aura just now disappeared. She lowered her head and mumbled a couple of times before sitting down next to Xiaobai. "I... I'll be very embarrassed."

"I'm telling the truth," Xiaobai said, picking up her teacup and taking small sips.

"..." Veneto didn't speak. She just turned her head silently and secretly watched Xiaobai drink tea.

"Huh? Is there something on my face?" Xiaobai asked curiously.

"...How does the tea taste?"

"what?"

“Sweet tea.” Veneto pointed to Little White’s teacup.

"Eh?"

Xiao Bai was taken aback. She looked down at the teacup in her hand and, after noticing the pale red tea inside, suddenly realized that the tea Veneto had brewed for her was the same sweet tea she usually drank.

“Lexington mentioned that you like this kind of tea, Admiral, and gave me some, saying that I could brew it for you when you visit,” Veneto said to Xiaobai.

“Ah… it’s Lexington…” Xiaobai realized and smiled awkwardly. “No wonder… I was used to drinking it at the office and at home, so I didn’t realize that Veneto’s tea is also this kind… Hmm, this tea is very good, thank you Veneto.”

“…That’s good.” Having received Xiaobai’s approval, Veneto seemed pleased. She straightened her posture, swung her legs back and forth in the air, and asked expectantly, “Admiral…how was your stay at my house today?”

"Well... although there are always unexpected things happening, overall I'm still very happy here."

Xiao Bai rubbed the steaming teacup and smiled at Veneto.

“I see…” Veneto pursed her lips in satisfaction and said to Xiaobai, “Today, because things happened so suddenly… we were unable to make the most perfect preparations to welcome the Admiral, and all sorts of things happened… making the Admiral a laughing stock.”

"No way," Xiaobai smiled.

"Next time, I'm definitely going to cook a meal for the Admiral myself!" Veneto clenched his little fist, full of resolute fighting spirit.

"……"noob.

dong dong dong...

Just then, Rome came running back excitedly from outside the living room.

"Admiral, Big Sister, I'm back!" Roma swung his arms as he approached Little White and Veneto, grabbed a chair, jumped up, and sat down cross-legged.

"Rome, you must show proper etiquette as a ship girl in front of the admiral," Veneto reminded Rome.

"Yes, ma'am!" Roma quickly lowered his legs, placed his hands on his thighs, straightened his back properly, then blinked and said to Xiaobai somewhat impatiently, "Um... um..."

"What's wrong?" Xiaobai asked.

"Admiral, when I went to put out the snacks, I saw that it was already quite late outside, and the moon was already out..." Roma said to Little White.

"Ah...that's true." Xiaobai tilted her head and glanced out the living room window.

really.

The sun outside the window had disappeared sometime earlier. Although the sky was still slightly bright, its brightness had clearly decreased. A pale moon had already floated in the sky, waiting for the curtain of night to fall and officially take over the night.

Winter is approaching.

It gets dark quickly anyway.

After getting off work today, Xiaobai wasted a lot of time at the training ground, so as a result, it started to get dark outside just as Xiaobai finished dinner at Veneto's house.

“Yes…it’s getting late…” Xiaobai nodded in agreement as she looked out the window.

Upon hearing Xiaobai's words...

Veneto on the left paused slightly, a hint of regret flashing in his lowered gaze.

Veneto quickly concealed the regret in his eyes and looked up at Little White.

"Admiral, the Bismarck family must be starting to worry about you too. It's time to go back..."

"Admiral, since it's so late, would you like to stay at our house for the night?" Roma asked Xiaobai excitedly with a smile.

"!" Veneto was taken aback, then quickly said to Roma, "Roma, don't put the admiral in a difficult position, she still needs to..."

"Okay." Xiaobai nodded.

“…Uh?” Veneto was taken aback and turned to look at Little White.

Xiao Bai was holding a teacup, with a gentle smile on his face.

"Admiral, what did you just say?"

"Sure," Xiaobai nodded and said with a smile, "If you don't mind, how about I stay here for the night?"

“But…but…what about the Bismarck family…” Veneto.

"Hmm... I'll call Missouri again—it's okay, after all, I'm at your house, Veneto, they won't worry about me." Little White smiled at Veneto, "Besides, it's getting dark so fast, it would be too disappointing to send me back now. Why don't we stay here for the night while we're still in the mood, okay?"

“…” Veneto.

"Wow! That's great!" Before Veneto could even speak, Roma was the first to jump off the table excitedly, shouting with joy, "I can sleep with the Admiral now! I've been looking forward to this for so long! How about we sleep on the living room floor tonight? Everyone together!"

Based on past practices.

Rome's loud and boisterous behavior in front of Iniesta is bound to get them a scolding from Veneto, who will teach them a lesson on proper ladylike restraint.

This time, however, Veneto unusually refrained from commenting on Rome's actions. Instead, his face flushed slightly, and he looked at Iniesta with a somewhat expectant expression.

"Admiral... what do you think?" Veneto was unusually shy. She swayed slightly, then looked up cautiously at Little White, seeking his opinion. "What do you think of Rome's suggestion?"

What else can a newbie do?

Xiao Bai looked at Veneto, who was about three hundred times cuter than usual, and gave Veneto a thumbs up.

After finishing her tea, Xiaobai made several phone calls. One of them was to the ship girls from the Bismarck family, telling them that she would be spending the night at the Veneto family's house and not to worry about her. The other calls were to the dormitory where Camicia and the others were staying, as well as to the Lexington family's house.

—After all, these ship girls were still not fully awake from Veneto's dinner, and Xiaobai was too embarrassed to carry them all back, so he could only tell their respective supervisors that they would be staying at Veneto's house with him for the night.

Finished the phone call.

The night was as dark as ink, the stars were dazzling, and the moon hung high in the sky, freely scattering its light in the silent night.

It was already evening.

"Sleep on the floor! Sleep on the floor! Let's sleep on the floor together!" Roma, dressed in shorts and a tank top, revealing her fair arms and legs, excitedly spread out the blankets for everyone in the living room while carrying bedding from her room and wiggling her hips. "Tonight is—a girls' tea party!"

Even Rome has a pink, girlish heart.

Move the tables and furniture aside, and remove the sofa to make room.

Soon, Rome laid out a large futon in the center of the living room, big enough for everyone to sleep on.

"Phew! Luckily, our boss usually buys a lot of spare bedding. It's just enough for everyone."

As Rome spoke, he undressed Camicia and the others, changed them into well-fitting cartoon pajamas, and then tucked them into bed one by one.

However, when changing the destroyer's pajamas, everything went smoothly until the part with Aviel, when a problem arose. The pajamas that Rome found were generally a good fit, but whenever the zipper was pulled up to the chest, it would get stuck on Aviel's ample bosom, which was disproportionate to her appearance, making it difficult to go any further.

"Ugh... Breathing... It's so hard to breathe..." Aviel looked uncomfortable in her sleep; it seemed the pajamas didn't suit her.

"Um...maybe I should just change into my pajamas..." Roma looked at Aviel with a troubled expression, muttered to himself, and sighed.

Xiao Bai watched from the side and couldn't help but show an envious expression.

"Speaking of which, Rome, where did you get these pajamas from?" Xiaobai asked Rome curiously as he watched Rome try to take off Aviel's pajamas.

"These?"

"Ah."

"These are the boss's pajamas."

"……"noob.

Chapter 1789 Sleeping Together

No sooner had Rome finished speaking than a pair of small hands reached out from behind him.

"Rome--"

Veneto appeared out of nowhere from behind Rome, pressing down on Rome's head, his voice as sharp as the sea breeze.

"Huh?! Big...Big Sister?!" Rome was so startled that she shuddered and her face turned pale.

“What you just said… I didn’t quite catch it. How about you repeat it to me?” Veneto said, his hand on Roma’s head sliding down to Roma’s ear, where he grabbed Roma’s ear. “Let me hear it again, properly?”

"Ah! Ahh, it hurts so much! Big Sister, I was wrong, I was wrong, I was wrong, waaaah, I misspoke, I misspoke, this isn't Big Sister's pajamas, this is my pajamas! My pajamas, ahh, it hurts so much!! Please, Big Sister, let go, ahh..." Roma's ears were her Achilles' heel. When Veneto grabbed Roma's ears, Roma's legs went weak, and she collapsed onto the bed, waving her hands wildly by her ears, pitifully begging Veneto for mercy.

"How could these pajamas be yours? The size doesn't match at all." Veneto bent down indifferently and muttered in Rome's ear.

"Th-th-those are the boss's pajamas, these are the boss's pajamas..." Roma quickly begged for mercy.

"Hmm?" Veneto tightened his grip.

"Aiya!!" Rome's eyes welled up with tears, "That...that's neither my pajamas nor Big Sister's pajamas, so whose pajamas are they...Big Sister, what do you want me to do...?"

“Before you and the Empire were built by the Admiral, Camicia and the others often stayed overnight here. So it’s strange that the house has some of their daily necessities prepared for them,” Veneto said to Rome, whose ear had been pulled up.

"Ah? But, but..."

“There are no ‘buts.’ I say it is, and that’s it.” Veneto frowned and said seriously, while slightly twisting the hand that was pulling Roma’s ear.

“Okay! I understand! These pajamas are what the eldest sister usually buys for Camicia and the others to use overnight! I get it! That’s right! I completely understand!” Rome replied quickly, like a kitten being lifted up.

"That's good." Veneto then released Rome's ear.

"Ouch! Ouch! My ear, my ear is going to fall off!" Roma cried out and fell down next to Aviel, then covered his bright red ear and rolled around on the ground like a cocoon.

"So these pajamas were bought by Veneto for Camicia and the others," Xiaobai said with a smile, looking at Roma who was fussing on the floor.